People are starting to place bets on Reddit's civil war
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BetUS said not all everyone believes Reddit might reverse its pricing move, but almost all think CEO Steve Huffman will survive regardless.

Hundreds of people are putting money on whether the company will back-track on its new API pricing policy or oust its CEO Steve Huffman, BetUS told Insider.

The online betting company said there was “very close heat” over whether Reddit will reverse its new pricing policy.

“So far, the betting public seems very much “at odds” and are undecided on this one so far,” it said.

Almost all bets have been on Huffman still being CEO by December 31, BetUS added.

  • WeirdmusicEnglish
    41•1 year ago

    To be honest, I’ve been dissatisfied with Reddit for quite a while now but just didn’t realise it. Once I dipped my toes into the Fediverse I realised what it was I’d been missing: that sense of community that Reddit used to have before it became too big, too cold and too corporate. In my defence I used RIF for years and was shielded from the worst excesses of corporate culture. After setting myself up on Lemmy and getting a bit of a handle on what’s what I’m really enjoying the sense of intimacy and DIY ethos. It’s far more like the Reddit I used to know. It feels good to be back.

    • zalack
      7•1 year ago

      Same. I’ve really been enjoying Kbin. More than I’ve enjoyed Reddit in years.

      When Relay for Reddit goes down, that site is dead to me. If someone can make a Relay-quality app for Kbin it’s game fucking over haha.

      The only thing I’m going to miss is /r/askhistorians. What a great subreddit.

      • tal
        3•1 year ago

        I would wager that some of of the history folks there will most-likely show up here.

        • zalack
          9•1 year ago

          They looked at Lemmy/Kbin and said it didn’t meet their criteria.

          Their goal is to reach as broad an audience as possible and the platform is too small right now. One of the reasons they can get professional historians to write thesis-length replies is that those historians know their responses might be seen by tens of thousands of people or more.

    • slicedcheesegremlin
      4•1 year ago

      I generally post in search of comments rather than upvotes, and I feel like Kbin/Lemmy are a lot better about that than Reddit. On Reddit, a post with only 50 upvotes is probably dead and will only get like 3 comments, meanwhile here it’s easy to get a huge number of comments with even a comparably small number of votes.

      • @[email protected]
        2•1 year ago

        I suppose it helps that there’s just not as much content so far, a 50 upvote post here is legitimately good engagement relative to the userbase, while on somewhere big like Reddit it’s a drop in the ocean

    • azurekbn
      2•1 year ago

      Same here. Had been using RIF for a long while as well and recently realized that it really was like a screen that managed to filter the worst of it if you knew how to customize your experience. Without that, there’s no point anymore. The Fediverse has its own learning curve, but it will be worth it just to find the instance and comms I’ll be most comfortable in.

      • niktemadur
        1•1 year ago

        I had over a hundred subreddits in my Home page, and several hundred ones blocked from All.
        Many of my subscribed subreddits had a sense of community. Three examples that I will miss, off the top of my head, are StanleyKubrick (small-to-medium) MadMen (small-to-medium) and Baseball (large).